turkey tales

[charlie cleveland]

angel that storey really got me fired up but at the end i had to laugh..almost the same thing happened to me about 20 years ago i had 3 toms a gobbling and strutting at 40 yards i had swam a creek and low crawled 40 yards through a briar patch those turkeys were so caught up in there act of trying to out show one another that i got up to with in ten yards of the biggest gobbler..i rasies the ithaca auto 10 took a good bead on the head pulled the trigger and after i regained my composure after the shot that turkey was in the air and on the wing..the other turkeys flew before i could get a bead on them..the turkey i shot at landed in a big pine at about 100 yards that big bird started gobbleing as though nothing happened i walked to that tree and thought i was close enough to kill that turkey i shot and out he flew fired to more shots and never cut a feather..believe it or not them two other gobblers were gobbleing at my call after i had missed the big boy but they were safe across a big slash that was mighty deep..they never came to my call s but they were still gobbleing as i left the woods..never before or after have i had so much gobbleing on a hunt.... charlie